Alexander Kerr

With Rickinson and his other comrades, Kerr camped on ice floes that drifted north towards the Drake Passage and into warmer water.

After a dangerous open-boat journey, the party made land at Elephant Island off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

[1] Upon returning to Britain, Kerr joined the Royal Navy and served on mine-sweepers during the second half of World War I.

With the end of what is called the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Kerr returned to London for good.

Kerr died, age 72, in hospital in Stepney on 4 December 1964, thus maintaining his ties with East London until his death.